Presented by Daniel Shustack

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ThingLink is an application that makes it easy to create interactive virtual activities without having to do any coding. It can't replicate everything students would do on an outing to catch butterflies, or a field trip to a power plant to see how electricity is made, or a hike into the forest to catch birds. However, this program does allow for interactivity that forces the students go beyond the passivity of just reading or watching videos. For example, this program provides an easy work-around for image mapping where I can have students carefully search images for different plants and animals. ThingLink is a useful platform for sharing videos, pictures, sound files, and 360 images. You can use your Google Drive or OneDrive to share files with students and the materials you create can be embedded into Canvas. There are also options (paid accounts at $35 for teachers) for adding your students so they can create these sorts of project, too. In this presentation I will demonstrate the projects I have created and how I use these materials in my Environmental Studies courses. Here is an example of one of my projects.